Denny Hamlin

James Dennis Alan Hamlin, or Denny, of Chesterfield, Virginia, is a race car driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. He drives the #11 FedEx Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing. In 2006, he was the Raybestos Rookie of the year, and he has over a dozen wins.

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When Matt Bowling won the Hampton Heat Late Model 200 in 2012, he was one of a small number of out-of-town drivers competing, and became the first one to win the race.
Now in its eighth year, the Heat has grown into one of the more popular Late Model...

Outta sight, outta mind. That might be the best way to describe C.E. Falk’s profile with some fans heading into the eighth annual Hampton Heat Late Model 200 on Saturday at Langley Speedway.
Through the first seven hours and 26 responses Wednesday to a...

HAMPTON – You could feel that the Hampton Heat Late Model 200 had hit the weekly racing big time in 2013, when 6,000 fans were on hand at Langley Speedway to see former national champion Peyton Sellers capture the $10,000 winner's share.
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Area businessman Rick Gdovic's purchase of the Viva Motorsports team that raced until mid-June in the Xfinity Series is arguably the most significant national move by an individual in Peninsula-area stock-car racing in a decade. The most recent Langley...

CONCORD, N.C. — Denny Hamlin gave Joe Gibbs Racing its first victory in NASCAR's Sprint All-Star race by using clean air to hold off Kevin Harvick at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Hamlin won the pole for Saturday night's race, was decent through the first...

RICHMOND — Empty seats, not to mention the tens of thousands covered by tarp or simply removed, are signs that NASCAR isn't as hot as it was 10 or 15 years ago. Sprint Cup Series television ratings which continue a steady decline despite a promising...

RICHMOND — Denny Hamlin returned from last week's injury-shortened weekend and led almost from start to finish Friday night to win the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Richmond International Raceway.
Hamlin led the first 154 laps after starting on...

It's kind of a quiet time for NASCAR as it swings into Richmond International Raceway for the Xfinity Series Toyotacare 250 on Friday and the Sprint Cup SeriesToyota Owners 400 on Saturday. There are no feuds to speak of, or any dominant controversies.
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Richmond International Raceway matters in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series like few other tracks north of Daytona International and Homestead-Miami speedways. But its importance is more about the late-summer date, when the RIR stop solidifies the Chase field....

HAMPTON — Lee Pulliam hadn’t even seen Langley Speedway before arriving for practice Friday morning, but he has no doubt many will consider him the man to beat in the Late Model twin 65-lappers Saturday. That goes with winning weekly national titles in...

FORT WORTH, Texas — York County driver Brandon Gdovic finished 26th Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway in his debut in the Xfinity Series, NASCAR's No. 2 national touring circuit.
The Langley Speedway racer was four laps off the pace in a 40-driver...

MARTINSVILLE — In a NASCAR week tumultuous on several fronts, Joe Gibbs Racing was hit hardest of all. The team announced Wednesday that its president, J.D. Gibbs, the son of JGR founder Joe Gibbs, will be treated for "symptoms impacting brain...

CONCORD, N.C. -- Kevin Harvick held off Jeff Gordon to win the Bank of America 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday night and join Joey Logano in the next round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
Gordon finished...

RICHMOND — The Sprint Cup Series late-summer stop at Richmond International Raceway is a lot like the annual HBO series that follows an NFL team through preseason camp. The narratives are bottom heavy, with football final roster cuts covered at length and...

RICHMOND – Brad Keselowski nailed down the No. 1 seed in the Chase for the Sprint Cup with a dominant victory in the Federated Auto Parts 400 on Saturday at Richmond International Raceway. Keselowski led 383 of 400 laps to finish nearly a second ahead...

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HAMPTON — The axiom that a visiting driver could not win a Late Model race on Langley Speedway’s flat 4/10ths-of-a-mile hasn’t just been dented, it’s been torn apart like Carl Edwards’ Ford on the fence at Talladega. Matt Bowling of Martinsville and...